Google Hoping Smiles Are Contagious

Google has just started a “send us your smile” campaign. They are moving one of their offices and want to wall paper the new office walls with pictures of Google advertisers.

A nice sentiment but after a while staring at those smiling faces on the walls has to get a little much… I want to visit that office after 6 months and would wager a few of the pics have been graffittied… true smiling can be contagious but in your face smiles can be annoying after a while.

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